Did Socrates Meditate? On Some Traces of Contemplative Practices in Early Greco-Latin Philosophy
Following insights by Pierre Hadot, I suggest that although explicit discussions of practices of breath control and other psychosomatic techniques of contemplative attention management are conspicuously absent in early Greek thought, there are some signs that analogous practices did exist, perhaps a...
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